These two related concepts should be seen in the context of the unfolding – the personal unfolding – of your Cosmos as you see it, as it befalls you. Coincidence and synchronicity are also very much connected to mindfulness.
'Coincidence' comes from the Latin coincidere, meaning 'to fall together'. 'Synchronicity', in the Jungian sense, refers to coincidences that seem to be meaningfully related – supposedly the result of "universal forces.
We notice coincidences around us, some of us noticing more coincidences than others. But making sense of them? We should see coincidences as warnings, as harbingers, signals to be heeded.
I remember, decades ago, walking past West Ealing station and seeing a woman wearing a black eye-patch. Later that day, I saw another woman on the Central Line also wearing a black eye-patch. One such sighting is unusual. But seeing two in a day – is it a sign? Let's imagine that I didn't consciously note this to myself at the time. And then two days later, I scratch my eye deeply on a low-hanging branch of a rosebush and end up in hospital. As I wait to be seen, I now remember those two women with eye-patches. I had ignored the warning...
Or is this seeing too much into it?
Being aware of the possibility of things going wrong is an important part of guarding against ill-fate, forestalling or precluding misfortunes of all kinds. As you walk your daily life along the edge of chaos. Seeing two magpies does not mean sorrow – it means it's time to reflect on the possibility of things going wrong and leading to a sorrowful outcome. But just being aware of that is enough to lift that cloud. But if you understand this, I believe that you can use synchronicities or observed coincidences to ward off bad luck – random events that have a negative outcome on your life.,
To do so, you need to do two things:
1) Accept that coincidences do can contain meaning. This means stepping above the materialist reductionist mindset that would dismiss synchronicities as meaningless.
2) Act consciously upon observed coincidences. If you consciously observe two people on crutches within a short space of time, it doesn't mean you will have an accident that results in you walking on crutches; rather it is a suggestion offered to you to be aware of the possibility of an accident occurring to you. And a prompt to switch on heightened levels of mindfulness.
There is a balance, between obsessively over-reacting to every possible manifestation of coincidence - and just outright ignoring this phenomenon. Seeking coincidences where there are none is as dangerous as dismissing coincidences that you do become conscious of. So don't go out of your way to look for coincidences; but when you do notice them – don't ignore them!"
The effect is weak but noticeable over the long term. But it will grow in strength as we evolve spiritually. Consciously observed coincidences can be a powerful set of signals to point daily life in the right direction.
"Everything is connected in Time" by ChatGPT
Just as there is the mycelial network of fungus under a forest floor connecting colonies of mushrooms, there is a similar unseen network of coincidence that holds events together.
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